What's new in ESET Security Management Center 7

The list below contains information about some of the important new features in the released version of ESET Security Management Center (ESMC).

Flexible Install—ESET Security Management Center can be installed on Windows, Linux or via Virtual Appliance. After installation, all management is done via a web console, allowing easy access and management from any device or operating system.

Name and User Interface (UI) updates—ESMC is the new name for the ESET remote management and will replace ESET Remote Administrator version 6. Many changes were made both functionally and visually, including a number of important updates to the UI.

Completely Multi-Tenant—Multiple users and permission groups can be created to allow access to a limited portion of the ESMC instance. This allows full streamlining of responsibilities across large enterprise teams.

Hardware and software inventory—Not only does ESMC report on all installed software applications across an organization, it also reports on installed hardware. This allows you to do more from a single location by dynamically grouping computers based off make, model, OS, processor, ram, HD and many more items.

Fully-customizable Report and Notification System—The notification system features a full WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor where you can fully configure notifications to be alerted on the exact information you want to be notified about. Reports include over 170+ built-in reports, and custom reports can be created easily and quickly.

Fully Automated VDI Support—A comprehensive hardware detection algorithm is used to determine the identity of the machine based on its hardware. This allows automated re-imaging and cloning of non-persistent hardware environments. Therefore, ESET support for VDI requires no manual interaction and is fully automated.

Fixed: Issue when future planned tasks are not executed unless computer is restarted

Fixed: Status overview chart does not render automatically if you change tabs

Fixed: Other fixes and stability improvements

Fixed: Various product localization issues reported after the release

Version 7.0.66.1 (compared to version 6.5)

Added: Automatic detection of “machine cloning” by a sophisticated hardware fingerprint detection to allow automatic resolving of cloning and advanced setup of environment for native support of VDI and golden master image environment

Added: New section that details which files were submitted to ESET LiveGrid® or ESET Dynamic Threat Defense (either manually, or automatically)

Added: DB info in “About” screen

Added: Enhanced filtering options by product name, version, number of alerts, policies, threats and many other options (autocomplete is available for some report input fields such as installed software, version or Operating System

Added: ESET Products dashboard as well as all reports where ESET applications are reported, now includes “one-click upgrade” option, even from aggregated data

Added: Expand all / collapse all option in Reports screen

Added: Extended options for filtering for specific values, for example, to select values reported in the Database by Operating System, Installed Applications and others

Added: You can set exclusions (by Hash) directly into policies from the footer and the details for each file display what was submitted, when, and the results of the submission

Added: Full-text search for reports screen is available by typing any substring from each name / description

Added: You can drill-down the Group details screen that shows the aggregated view on parent / children, as well as the summary (computers, alerts, unresolved threats, tasks, policies)

Added: “Incident Overview” dashboard that provides navigation to detected/reported threats with one click and an overview of unresolved threats including their severity, detection method, resolution status and top 10 computers/users with incidents

Added: You can create Notifications on new event types (blocked files, etc.) with advanced filtering options

Added: You can resolve “resolvable” actions with one click such as to activate, reboot, update OS, or various protection issues (for instance, to re-enable protection features) and additional “Search the web” function will open Google with the specific error value (always containing ESET and respecting the language of the error)

Added: Ability to allow “local lists” on Endpoint clients with the result to have merged values from configured policies and locally specified entries (when local lists are enabled, values are no longer read-only for the local administrator)

Added: You can edit multiple notifications at once (define users / enable / set timezone / set monitored static group)

Added: You can enable / disable notification(s)

Added: You can open “Behaviors” for the files submitted to EDTD (with the ability to configure sensitivity of detection in ESET products via policies)

Added: Ability to specify a monitored static group to filter out computers based on the static group membership

Added: Proactive notification about “new version of ESMC server is available” and suggested steps

Added: Support for Subscription licenses

Changed: ERA Proxy is discontinued in ESMC. ESMC has a new replication protocol with the usage of “EPNS” (ESET Push Notification Service) and multicast support for WOL. New protocol no longer requires “ESMC Proxy” for agents – server communication caching. Upgrade with caution by following the Online Help instructions: Upgrade infrastructure with ERA 6.5 Proxy

Changed: “Deploy agent” screen, with simpler options, and the ability to generate installers

Improved: “Add new computer” wizard for computers / mobile devices with the ability to initiate the “AD sync” task from computers directly as well as support for “device owner” enrollment for Android 7 devices

Improved: “Context-sensitive context menus” do not show invalid options

Improved: “Show preview” displays the content that is available in the ESMC Database

Improved: Alert (problem) details are reported from the supported security products Endpoint version 7, version 7 server products and all future business products to be released

Improved: Behavior change of the “Threats section” where threats are automatically marked as resolved in ESMC

Improved: Better tooltips showing accurate license usage

Improved: Completely new and redesigned notifications section with many new notification templates available by default